I Have Congenital Hypothyroidism

My little baby was born in Russia in 2006. She was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism on 11 th day. I thought My life ended, since I knew nothing about it. I was blaming myself constantly, trying to find the reason.
Now she is 5...

Oddly enough, so do my three sisters. I am told this is very rare, and I have had medical staff not believe me in the past. One of my sisters has had her thyroid glands removed in the hopes that this would "fix" her problem and the...

My 17 month old daughter was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism when she was ten days old. Her newborn heel-prick screening came back abnormal and we had to get a CT scan done on her before she was 2 weeks old and...

My 11 week old daughter has a large soft spot. when looking this up online I discovered ch. I've read a few stories about it but everybody else has posts about their children being diagnosed within birth to 3 weeks. She seems to have a...

What has your experience been?

Nine years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful little girl. She was my first child after 6 years of marriage. Regardless to say, she had a perfect APGAR score - was healthy and of course such a good baby. At around 5 weeks she was...

This is for the parents who have children with Congenital Hypothyroidism. Its ok. Yes it's scary to find out that your new baby has it but don't worry. If you give them a proper diet, take them to get their lab work done, give them...

Our little man is sooo perfect but it was a hard pregnancy! He tried to come at 32 weeks (I enjoyed the mag, steroid shots,hospital bedrest, and the NICU on standby) but he held off like a fighter! At 39 weeks and Christmas Eve he...

I was born with Congenital Hypothyroidism. When I was a kid, I rememeber taking my meds every day but I never knew why I had to take them. My parents never told me. All they said was that I was "sick". So day after day I continued my...

Hi to all the survivors , fighters , defeaters and sufferers of hypothyroidism ,this is my first time on any kind of internet forum ... my pain & my helplessness has dragged me here...here's my story :My daughter just recently born 2...

i don't remember much about my childhood apart from the 6month checkups and blood tests to see if i had grown. the endless bone age xrays to see how my bones were growing.

i have many spells of actually not taking my medication, for...

My mother was diagnosed with "the worst case of hashimotos" her doctor had ever seen about a year before I got pregnant. We had never really heard of this disease before, but as we dug into it we discovered that I exhibited a lot of the...

My daughter was diagnosed at 5 days with ch and has had her thyriod levels in control but still has symptoms of sleepiness and tsometimes dry skin. Has anyone experienced this or is this normal? She's a month old now and I,m afraid...